Events on Saturday, December 13

Studio Sale feat. Lorena Barrezueta, Todd Carr, Lisa Goldberg, Lauren Adams, Sarah Cihat, and Virginia Sin

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Studio Sale feat. Lorena Barrezueta

Saturday 12/13 @ Studio

Holiday shopping woes be gone — a group of Brooklyn artists is offering a stress-free antidote to the seasonal chaos with... 

<em>C.L.U.E.</em>

Art

C.L.U.E.

Saturday 12/13 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

A.L. Steiner and Robbinschilds designed Color Location Intimate Experience (C.L.U.E.) in collaboration with AJ Blandford and the Seattle band Kinski as... 

Oneida Festival feat. Brava Spectre w/ Cave, Dirty Faces, Knyfe Hyts, Parts & Labor, and Oakley Hall

Music

Oneida Festival

Saturday 12/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Any day now, the Knitting Factory will abandon its Manhattan homestead and head to Brooklyn. The future promises a snug new... 

Santacon

Special Event

Santacon

Saturday 12/13 @ Various locations

Things we love: bar crawls/booze, dressing up and acting a fool, Christmas, and any opportunity to poke fun at said holiday.... 

Unsilent Night

City Gems

Unsilent Night

Saturday 12/13 @ Washington Square Park

Fans of flash mobs and minimalist music will want to come out for this year's Unsilent Night. Experimental composer Phil Kline... 

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Designer Holiday Trunk Show

Saturday 12/13 @ The Bell House-

The Bell House hosts one-stop shopping today, as local designers, chefs, paper-makers, and jewelers set up the Holiday Trunk Show. Score... 

Rhett Miller w/ Mia Riddle

Music

Rhett Miller

Saturday 12/13 @ The Bell House-

A Texan at heart, Austin-bred rocker Rhett Miller sticks close to his Lone Star State roots. There's no rush to his... 

Ongoing Events

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Saturday 12/13 @ Smith-Stewart

Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup.... 

Peter Callesen: <em>Folded Thoughts</em>

Art

Peter Callesen

Saturday 12/13 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 12/13 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 12/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Saturday 12/13 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Saturday 12/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Saturday 12/13 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Saturday 12/13 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 12/13 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

Federico Fellini's <em>Amarcord</em> (1973)

Film

Amarcord

Saturday 12/13 @ Film Forum

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Saturday 12/13 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 12/13 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

<em>The Deville's Holiday Special</em> feat. Pufferella and Ad Deville

Art

Deville's Holiday Special

Saturday 12/13 @ Factory Fresh

This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that... 

Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>

Art

Robert Morris

Saturday 12/13 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Saturday 12/13 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Saturday 12/13 @ Soho Rep

It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production... 

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Saturday 12/13 @ Location One

Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Saturday 12/13 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

<em>Nutcracker: Rated R</em>

Dance

Nutcracker: Rated R

Saturday 12/13 @ Theater for the New City

Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Saturday 12/13 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>The Brooklyn Block Party</em>

Art

The Brooklyn Block Party

Saturday 12/13 @ Ad Hoc Art

Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Saturday 12/13 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Saturday 12/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Saturday 12/13 @ Cinema Village

Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 12/13 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... 

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Saturday 12/13 @ Murray Guy

For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Saturday 12/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Saturday 12/13 @ The Public Theater

Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Saturday 12/13 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Saturday 12/13 @ Union Square

Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 12/13 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: <em>Bamboo Blues</em>

Dance

Pina Bausch

Saturday 12/13 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 12/13 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Saturday 12/13 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Saturday 12/13 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

Art

Alex Grey

Saturday 12/13 @ MicroCoSM Gallery

Alex Grey, best known for his Sacred Mirrors series of metaphysical anatomical maps, is ready to show his (ever-evolving) self-portraits in... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 12/13 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Saturday 12/13 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Saturday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... 

Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party

Party

Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party

Saturday 12/13 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill

Rock 'n roll's original bad girl hosts her annual Christmas party at B.B. King's this year, putting her stamp on classics... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Saturday 12/13 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

C215: <em>Junk Store</em>

Art

C215

Saturday 12/13 @ Ad Hoc Art

Parisian artist C215 has been peeking from the shadows on a cross-continental level, and he's ready for his first stateside solo... 

Richard Prince: <em>Canal Zone</em>

Art

Richard Prince

Saturday 12/13 @ Gagosian Gallery

Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Saturday 12/13 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

Misnomer Dance Theater: <em>Being Together</em>

Dance

Misnomer Dance Theater

Saturday 12/13 @ Joyce Soho

Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work... 

<em>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>

Art

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

Saturday 12/13 @ EFA Project Space

The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Saturday 12/13 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Saturday 12/13 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Saturday 12/13 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Saturday 12/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Saturday 12/13 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 12/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Saturday 12/13 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Saturday 12/13 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

Oliver Sudden & Michael Portnoy: <em>The Dudion Levers</em>

Art

The Dudion Levers

Saturday 12/13 @ Martos Gallery

At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Saturday 12/13 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Saturday 12/13 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Saturday 12/13 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

Cory Arcangel: <em>Adult Contemporary</em>

Art

Cory Arcangel

Saturday 12/13 @ Team Gallery

Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship... 

<em>Slava's Snowshow</em>

Theatre

Slava's Snowshow

Saturday 12/13 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first... 

<em>February</em>

Dance

February

Saturday 12/13 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

LeeSaar the Company — a partnership between actress/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari — brings a split bill of dance... 

La Suprette 2008

Fashion/Style: Shopping

La Suprette 2008

Saturday 12/13 @ La Suprette

After a particularly black Black Friday, holiday shopping may not be at the top of anyone's "things I want to do"... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Saturday 12/13 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

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Theatre

[title of show]

Saturday 12/13 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Saturday 12/13 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

<em>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Saturday 12/13 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

<em>Improbable Frequency</em>

Theatre

Improbable Frequency

Saturday 12/13 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Saturday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Saturday 12/13 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 12/13 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 12/13 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre

There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Saturday 12/13 @ Metro Pictures

After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of... 

<em>The Firemen's Ball </em>(1967)

Film

The Firemen's Ball

Saturday 12/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in... 

<em>Dance Dance Revolution</em>

Dance

Dance Dance Revolution

Saturday 12/13 @ Ohio Theatre

Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Saturday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...